There is intersubjectivity woven into the very fabric of the Kosmos at all levels.
In Democracy, man exploits man; in Communism, it’s the other way round.
The more I go into I, the more I fall out of I.
Prana is implicate to matter but explicate to mind; mind is implicate to prana but explicate to soul; soul is implicate to mind but explicate to spirit; and the spirit is the source and suchness of the entire sequence.
There is nothing but God, nothing but the Goddess, nothing but Spirit in all directions, and not a grain of sand, not a speck of dust, is more or less Spirit than any other.
This is the world of One Taste, with no inside and no outside, no subject and no object, no in here versus out there, without means, without path and without goal. And this, as Ramana said, is the final truth.
There are spiritual patterns at work in the universe and these announce themselves with impressive regularity wherever human minds and hearts attempt to attune themselves to the cosmos in all its radiant dimensions.
Like going to the dentist, where you write: “Dental appointment today. All of the dentists in Boulder are ‘holistic.’ They can’t fill a cavity but they’re good for your soul. Your teeth rot, but apparently your spirit prospers.”
I believe that evidence shows that there is a real spirit, a real Beach, but it is beneath no pavement whatsoever, for all pavements arise within it: Spirit is all-encompassing. It transcends everything, it includes everything.
Subpersonalities can exist at different levels or memes, however, so that one can indeed have a purple subpersonality, a blue subpersonality, and so on. These often are context-triggered, so that one can have quite different types of moral responses, affects, needs, etc., in different situations.
Meditation was invented as a way for the soul to venture inward, there ultimately to find supreme identity with Godhead. Whatever else it does, and it does many beneficial things, meditation is first and foremost a search for the God within.
What’s my philosophy? In a word, integral.
The Enlightenment was an attempt to liberate myth and base truth claims on evidence, not just dogma. But when science threw out the church, they threw out the baby with the bath water.
Do you even recognize your own consciousness?
Freedom is an endless meeting.
One’s sanctions for truth and goodness are established largely by individual preferences.
Religion is just coded spirituality.
Society forces you to conform.
Some forms of truth are really forms of social power and oppression.
The only justifications for belief have the form “justified for me”.